Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC ( 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916 ), was an Irish-born British Field Marshal and proconsul who won fame for his imperial campaigns and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War, although he died halfway through it.

Six days later Kitchener, who had risen from major-general to the brevet rank of full general during the war, was created Viscount Kitchener, of Khartoum and of the Vaal in the Colony of Transvaal and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk.

Curzon wrote to Kitchener advising him that signing himself “ Lord Kitchener of Khartoum ” took up too much time and space – Kitchener commented on the pettiness of this ( Curzon simply signed himself " Curzon " as if he were an hereditary peer, although he later took to signing himself “ Curzon of Kedleston ”).

The Official History later admitted that Kitchener hoped to be appointed Supreme Allied Commander.

Captain Fritz Joubert Duquesne, a Boer Army officer and later a spy in the Second Boer War, hated Kitchener because of his scorched earth policy, and he hated the British in general for abusing his family in the concentration camps.

Lord Kitchener applied scorched earth policy during the later part of the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ) when the Boers, not conforming to classic military defeat when the their two capital cities where captured, but never on the battlefield, adopted the first modern form of what we know today as guerrilla warfare, in order to rid their republics of the British.

This was in part a clash of personalities: Curzon once wrote on a document “ I rise from the perusal of these papers filled with the sense of the ineptitude of my military advisers ”, and once wrote to the Commander-in-Chief in India, Lord Kitchener advising him that signing himself “ Lord Kitchener of Khartoum ” took up too much time and space, which Kitchener thought petty ( Curzon simply signed himself “ Curzon ” as if he were an hereditary peer, although he later took to signing himself “ Curzon of Kedleston ”).

However, Sefton Brancker, the Assistant Director of Military Aeronautics, suggested that this should be raised to 30 and Lord Kitchener later set the target at 60.

Lord Kitchener, the Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, referring to French, later said " his willingness to accept responsibility, and his bold and sanguine disposition have relieved me from many anxieties ".

On 18 September, a powerful flotilla of British gunboats arrived at the isolated Fashoda fort, led by Sir Herbert Kitchener and including Lieutenant-Colonel ( later General ) Horace Smith-Dorrien.

Born in Berlin ( later Kitchener ), Ontario, the son of Louis Jacob Breithaupt and Emma Alvarine Devitt, he was educated at the University of Toronto.

Although nothing could be salvaged, CKNX-TV was on the air again later that night with the help of nearby stations in London, Barrie, Kitchener, and Toronto.

Scott Walker first played junior hockey for Kitchener of the OHA Junior ' B ' league in 1989 – 90, moving to his hometown Cambridge team later that season.

As a child and a young man he stammered so badly that he could not pronounce his own name, but after several failed attempts to correct his stammering, first at a school in Kitchener and later at a school in New York city he eventually learned how to control and correct the habit himself, opening his own School of Speech Correction.

There were also a number of other famous people from Athea, including the Ahern brothers of Olympian fame, David Quaid served with the Royal Munster Fusiliers from 1897 – 1909 he fought at the battles of Belmont, The Modder River and the Relief of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War in South Africa 1899 – 1902, he later served with his regiment in India under Lord Kitchener.

Robertson later wrote in his memoirs that he was not close to Kitchener, having only ever served with him in South Africa.

He won the Liberal nomination in Kitchener Centre on February 2, 2003, and defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative Wayne Wettlaufer by about 2000 votes in the provincial election held later in the year.

The designation Punjab Frontier Force was dropped in 1901, but with the Kitchener Reforms of the British Indian Army two years later, the former distinction was restored to the newly re-numbered regiments in the form of the subsidiary title Frontier Force.

Major Kitchener served in the 1884-85 Nile Campaign as an intelligence officer.

It is a square, crenulated stone tower and bears the inscription: " This tower was raised by the people of Orkney in memory of Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum on that corner of his country which he had served so faithfully nearest to the place where he died on duty.

In South Australia, they are known as Berliner or Kitchener and often served in cafes.

On January 1, 2000, the Region of Waterloo created GRT by assuming the operations of the former Kitchener Transit ( which also served Waterloo ) and Cambridge Transit from these cities.

From 1899 to 1902 during the Boer War Birdwood served as military secretary on the staff of General Lord Kitchener, beginning a close association that continued in India while Kitchener was Commander-in-Chief, India.

Redman served as a trustee on the Waterloo County Board of Education from 1988 to 1994, and was a councillor for the City of Kitchener and the Regional Municipality of Waterloo from 1994 to 1997.

Georgetown GO Station is a GO Transit and Via Rail railway station, served by Kitchener line GO Trains in addition to three trains in each direction per day operated by Via Rail on the Toronto-Sarnia route.

Between 1990 and 1993 and since 2011, some GO Trains have served stations further west ; as of 2011 the majority of Kitchener line trains continue to originate and terminate here.

He served as a councillor in Kitchener from 1979 to 1994, and also served on the Regional Municipality of Waterloo from 1981 to 1994.

He served as a Liberal Member of Parliament representing Kitchener, Ontario from 1974 until 1979.

In 1883 Kitchener became a Freemason.

As well as Bennett, speculation has also focused on Lord Kitchener, who among other things was prominently involved in British military recruitment in World War I.

* 1896 – British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.

; 1898: British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat the Mahdist forces at the battle of Omdurman, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.

* June 5 – Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal and statesman ( b. 1850 )

* September 2 – Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.

* June 24 – Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal and statesman ( d. 1916 )

In an effort to cut off supplies to the raiders, the British, now under the leadership of Lord Kitchener, responded with a scorched earth policy of destroying Boer farms and moving civilians into concentration camps.

As a result of these and other Boer successes, the British, led by Lord Kitchener, mounted three extensive searches for De Wet, but without success.

On 11 April 1901, Louis Botha corresponded with Kitchener, complaining that British officers were inducing the Swazis to fight against the Boers.

Kitchener won fame in 1898 for winning the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan, after which he was given the title " Lord Kitchener of Khartoum "; as Chief of Staff ( 1900 – 02 ) in the Second Boer War he played a key role in Lord Roberts ' conquest of the Boer Republics, then succeeded Roberts as commander-in-chief – by which time Boer forces had taken to guerrilla fighting and British forces imprisoned Boer civilians in concentration camps.

Kitchener then returned to Egypt as British Agent and Consul-General ( de facto administrator ).

During the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ), Kitchener arrived with Lord Roberts on the RMS Dunottar Castle and the massive British reinforcements of December 1899.

A reconciliatory peace treaty which Kitchener had negotiated with the Boer leaders failed in February 1901 due to British cabinet veto.

During this period Kitchener struggled against Sir Alfred Milner, the Governor of the Cape Colony, and the British government.

Milner was a hard-line conservative and wanted forcibly to Anglicise the Afrikaans people ( the Boers ), and Milner and the British government wanted to assert victory by forcing the Boers to sign a humiliating peace treaty ; Kitchener wanted a more generous compromise peace treaty that would recognize certain rights for the Afrikaners and promise future self-government.

Eventually the British government decided the war had gone on long enough and sided with Kitchener against Milner.

Kitchener then returned to Egypt as British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt ( the job formerly held by Lord Cromer ) and of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ( 1911 – 1914, during the formal reign of Abbas Hilmi II as Khedive ( nominally Ottoman monarch ) of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, of the Sudan, of Kordofan and of Darfur ).